Selected offspring would tend to have an increased capacity for learning new skills rather than being confined to genetically coded, relatively fixed abilities. In effect, it places emphasis on the fact that the sustained behavior of a species or group can shape the evolution of that species. The "Baldwin effect" is better understood in [[evolutionary developmental biology]] literature as a scenario in which a character or [[biological trait|trait]] change occurring in an [[organism]] as a result of its interaction with its environment [[genetic assimilation|becomes gradually assimilated]] into its developmental genetic or epigenetic repertoire (Simpson, 1953; Newman, 2002). In the words of [[Daniel Dennett]],<ref name=dennett03/> | Selected offspring would tend to have an increased capacity for learning new skills rather than being confined to genetically coded, relatively fixed abilities. In effect, it places emphasis on the fact that the sustained behavior of a species or group can shape the evolution of that species. The "Baldwin effect" is better understood in [[evolutionary developmental biology]] literature as a scenario in which a character or [[biological trait|trait]] change occurring in an [[organism]] as a result of its interaction with its environment [[genetic assimilation|becomes gradually assimilated]] into its developmental genetic or epigenetic repertoire (Simpson, 1953; Newman, 2002). In the words of [[Daniel Dennett]],<ref name=dennett03/> |